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Dantes Inferno [Blu-ray] [Import]

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The Blu-ray edition of Dante's Inferno is a great collection of anime shorts adapting the first part of medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri's epic Divine Comedy. The 88 minute movie links the shorts seamlessly together and all that tell's you that you have shifted to a new director is a change in animation style.

The animation is all well done but some segments are better then others. One of the segments is directed by Japanese director Shuko Murase of Ergo Proxy fame. Sadly the animation does not warrant Blu-ray 1080p treatment and would likely look as good on a standard DVD. This edition comes with scant extras as well with simply an animatics segment on some of the key charcters and an admittedly well done trailer for the EA game of the same title. They could have done much more with the Blu-ray format.

What stopped me from giving the disk three stars is the superb writing and voice acting. Mark Hammill (Luke Skywalker in Star Wars episodes IV-VI) is a very talented and experienced voice actor and he was a great choice to be featured in the disk. The music and sound (in Dolby 5.1) is also well done.

At the end of the day it's a great watch and you will likely watch it many more times than once. A warning - there is some nudity but it is not explicit. There is an intense amount of violence and gore as well. The disk comes unrated but would likely receive a Restricted rating.